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Quotes About Culture

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.
~ Dalia Mogahed
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
~ Marlene Dietrich
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
~ Assia Djebar
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
~ Harold Geneen
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
~ Jackson Katz
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
~ Carine Roitfeld
The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.
~ Diana Vreeland
Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.
~ Gary Jennings
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
~ G. E. M. Anscombe
I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits
~ Natalie Portman
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
What is it with all of these young single white women? Overeducated - doesn't mean intelligent.
~ Rush Limbaugh
English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
~ Miriam A. Ferguson
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
~ Shulamith Firestone
A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.
~ Wafa Sultan
When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.
~ Doug Stanhope
Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".
~ Tyler Perry
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
~ Pierre Cardin
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
~ Loretta Lynn
Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
~ Lois Wyse